- Some great book history seminar series and book talks are happening virtually this fall: the Five College Book History Seminar, Penn's Workshop in the History of Material Texts, and the AAS' PHBAC Virtual Book Talks.
- Kathryn James offers up some Quarantine Reading: Learn to Read Secretary Hand.
- From Henry Widener for the OLL Blog, "Tracing John Locke's path to the Oliveira Lima Library."
- At Early Modern Female Book Ownership this week, the full-page bookplate of Elizabeth Percival.
- On the JHI "In Theory" podcast, Simon Brown interviews Anthony Grafton about Grafton's new book Inky Fingers.
- New! Eighteenth-Century Borrowing from the University of Glasgow.
- Jennifer Farrell will give the APHA Lieberman Lecture on 2 October, "The City is my Religion: A Typographic Memoir." Register here.
- From the Leiden University Special Collections blog, Lavinia Maddaluno on some unpublished draft letters from a Swiss mathematician to Isaac Newton on matters alchemical.
- Devon Eastland writes for the Swann Galleries blog on "Early Printed Books: Old Tombstones."
- Over on the University of St. Andrews Special Collections blog, a Walter Scott letter to George Chalmers from the Marseille Middleton Holloway autograph albums.
- RBSC at Notre Dame highlights a facsimile early modern book they've been making for use in an exhibition.
- From Not Even Past, Aaron Pratt's "Technology in Paper: Interactive Design in Early Printed Books."
- At the Emory University Scholar Blog, Kelin Michael posts on "Illuminating Medieval and Renaissance Materials at Rose Library."
- Also from Emory, news that the Rose Library has acquired the papers of Black Panther Party activist Kathleen Cleaver.
- September's Rare Book Monthly articles include Bruce McKinney's short interview with David Lesser.
Reviews
- Richard Ovenden's Burning the Books; review by Christopher Howse in the Telegraph.
Upcoming Auctions
- Books and Documents on the Independence of Mexico, the First Empire and the First Republic at Morton Subastas on 8 September.
- Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Spanish Books & Manuscripts, The David Wilson Library of Natural History (Part II) at Dominic Winter Auctioneers on 9–10 September.
- Comics & Comics Art Signature Auction at Heritage Auctions on 10–13 September.
- PBA Platinum: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Art at PBA Galleries on 10 September.
